White House braces for weak jobless report
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The White House is bracing for a new jobs report Friday that is expected to show paltry hiring by the private sector The report from the Labor Department is expected to show the nation’s unemployment rate rising above 9.5 percent. While weekly claims for unemployment fell on Thursday, a private report earlier this week projected the businesses would lose 10,000 jobs for the month. President Obama, under pressure to bolster the sluggish economy with only two months before the mid-term election, is working on new business tax breaks to provide a jolt to the sluggish economy. In Rose Garden comments...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
White House strongly condemns Hamas attack
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On the eve of Middle East peace talks set to get underway at the White House Wednesday, the White House has condemned the attack Tuesday claimed by Hamas that killed four Israelis near Hebron, in the West Bank.(Snip)Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who met earlier today with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also condemned the Hamas attack.(Snip) Israeli media reported that gunmen approached the Israelis' vehicle near the West Bank city of Hebron Tuesday evening and shot dead at point blank range the four people inside, including two women.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
[Flashback]White House Jobs Summit: Real Progress or PR Stunt?
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"What I'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term," the president said at the opening session of the White House jobs summit. ..."I'm confident that people like you -- who built thriving businesses or revolutionized industries or brought cities and communities together and changed the way we look at the world and innovated and created new products -- that you can come up with some additional good ideas on how to create jobs," he said. "I need everybody here to bring their 'A game' here today," Obama added, challenging...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
GOP plans wave of White House probes
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If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority. Everything from the microscopic – the New Black Panther party – to the massive –- think bailouts – is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
White House reporters mumon Obama lunch, even aspapers back transparency
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White House reporters are keeping quiet about an off-the-record lunch today with President Obama — even those at news organizations who've advocated in the past for the White House to release the names of visitors. But the identities of the lunch's attendees won't remain secret forever: Their names will eventually appear on the White House's periodically updated public database of visitor logs. The White House posts them with a three-month lag, so records of August visits won't be available until late November. (Although, since many of those invited already work in the White House every day, their lunch visit may...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
White House ramps up damage control over Obama Chicago gay history(WMR)
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White House ramps up damage control over Obama Chicago gay history publication date: Jul 17, 2010 The story about President Barack Obama's bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young's bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
White House: Unemployment at 9% until 2012 (Haven't the RATS been in charge since 2007?)
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White House: Unemployment at 9% until 2012By Jeanne Sahadi, senior writer July 23, 2010: 6:27 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The White House said Friday it expects that unemployment will stay at or above 9% until 2012, but at the same time forecast that the economy will grow by at least 4% in 2011 and 2012. It also revised its long-term deficit estimate under President Obama's proposed 2011 budget: The administration now believes the 10-year deficit will be $58 billion less than projected in February when the budget blueprint was first released. Under the revised estimates, Uncle Sam will...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 08:12:19 AM
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